yum-cron in the cloud images?

[Troy Dawson]

On 12/14/2012 08:21 AM, Florian La Roche wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 09:17:21AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 08:05:06AM -0600, Troy Dawson wrote:
>>> It's frustrating enough on a local machine when an update goes wrong.
>>> But on an Amazon machine, you have no console during bootup.  So if
>>> something is going wrong during bootup ... you're out of luck.
>>
>> Yeah. On the other hand, with Fedora's fast pace, leading edge nature, and
>> huge package selection, I feel like we're doing our users a disservice by
>> not providing some level of protection. 
> 
> Add new images will all updates applied and minimal tests of them.
> 
>>
>> What if we did security updates only, by default? (Right now, yum-cron
>> doesn't support this, so it'd be a F19 feature.)
> 
> Might be an option, not sure this is stable enough.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Florian La Roche
> 

I have no problem with automatic security only updates on Fedora, if we
can do that.

Troy